Most if not all of the alleged gang members involved in a drive-by shooting at a northeast Athens apartment complex Friday night have been identified and are actively being sought, Athens-Clarke police said Tuesday.

A six-count warrant for the arrest of one of the suspects was obtained by police on Monday, and more warrants will soon be applied for, according to Lt. Clarence Holeman of the Athens-Clarke police robbery/homicide squad.

''The detectives have developed several suspects and several leads, and there will be additional warrants,'' Holeman said. ''There are five or six suspects that have been identified.''

The suspected shooters are alleged members of the Los Primos street gang, and are known by such nicknames as Goofy and Stranger, police said.

The arrest warrant already obtained by police is for 23-year-old Valentin Juarez on multiple charges of aggravated assault in connection with the shooting.

Holeman said although a search was under way locally for the suspects, it was possible they fled the Athens-Clarke police jurisdiction into Hall County - quite possibly into Gainesville, the county seat and a stronghold of the Sur 13 Mexican street gang, with which Los Primos is affiliated.

The 11 p.m. shooting on Wynter Court had targeted members of a rival group called the 18th Street gang, police said.

Police at first said that all three victims appeared to have been innocent bystanders, but now say that one of those injured apparently had been an intended target of the shooting.

That victim was standing with a group of friends outside 115-A Wynter Court, a duplex within Garden Apartments off North Avenue, when an estimated 50 shots were fired at them from a caravan of three vehicles. An 18-year-old Wynter Court resident who had been among that group said the assailants had shouted ''Primos! Primos!'' before opening fire with a variety of weapons which included a semi-automatic rifle and shotgun.

One young man in that group, possibly an 18th Street gang member, was struck by a bullet in the elbow, police said. The other victims had been eating dinner inside 115-B Wynter Court. All three victims were treated at Athens Regional Medical Center and released.

The drive-by shooting had been an apparent continuance of an earlier incident at Garnett Ridge, a complex of rental duplexes off Jefferson River Road purported to be a Los Primos stronghold.

In the first incident, police said, members of the 18th Street gang drove through Garnett Ridge Friday and traded insults with members of Los Primos, who fired shots at the car.

Garnett Ridge is one of the neighborhoods slated to be monitored by police in an effort, announced Friday before the shooting incident by Police Chief Jack Lumpkin, to gather intelligence on local gangs.

The drive-by shooting was the first here that Athens-Clarke police have officially called gang-related.

Holeman said his department planned to come down hard on gang activity because, as the Wynter Court drive-by shooting illustrated, gang violence often hurts or kills innocent bystanders.

''There's going to be zero tolerance,'' Holeman said. ''What bothers me more so than anything else is that innocent people end up getting the bad end of the deal, and that's exactly what happened on Friday.''